Critics are analyzing “Saturday Night Live” for what they described as their “remarkably weak” return to radio waves after a six-week hiatus that encompassed a chaotic news cycle.
Viewers who watched NBC’s sketch comedy show noted that Saturday’s episode largely avoided making fun of President Biden, after spending the past four years ridiculing former President Donald Trump, played by Alec Baldwin.
Los Angeles Times TV critic Lorraine Ali did not go around with a criticism entitled: “Perhaps Trump killed the satire: ‘SNL’ starts the Biden era in a remarkably weak way.”
There his criticism began with the question: “What will the dawn comedy do without Trump?” Judging by the first episode of the mainstay of dawn since the 45th president left office, Ali replied: “the future looks … uninspired.”
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“After a month-long break, the show struggled to find its balance and seemed woefully outdated by a world that has changed dramatically since the venerable skit comedy, now in its 46th season, last aired in December,” he wrote There. “In spite of all the weight – an astounding US Capitol uprising, the separation of Kim and Kanye, the meme of Bernie Sanders’ possession gloves, idiots of QAnon in fur, vaccine launch errors, idiotic games of GameStop on Wall Street – host John Krasinski and the cast received little to nothing to work for ‘SNL’ writers. “
She added: “If Trump had a victory last month, it may be that ‘SNL’ suddenly seems lost without him. The big orange beacon of ridicule has left the building, and where is the joy of mocking Biden … or vice – President Kamala Harris … when all there is to work so far is an aggressively normal opening and daily civil news briefings … ‘SNL’ will have to broaden its scope again, because pulling humor out of the White House will never be easier as in the past four years. “
Atlantic team writer David Sims was equally critical, calling the return of “SNL” after six hectic weeks “the equivalent of a giant shrug”, postulating that the show “has no energy” to tackle events current. and overturning “soft political humor”.
“The show is clearly entering a period of transition towards a more foolish and less overtly political approach, with this strange season serving as a strange bridge,” wrote Sims.
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Vanity Fair contributor Karen Valby conducted her review by writing, “I don’t remember the name of Donald Trump being talked about once on SNL last night. Which is incredible – except that so much is still shit.”
Valby went on to suggest that part of the problem was presenter John Krasinski, writing that show apparently “didn’t know what to do with an apple pie from a guy who has the body of a Biff”.